[quote=Errikos]So well done to all developers who have contributed to this glorious pinnacle of affairs, and continue to rise over the aforementioned musical Everest, soaring into heights where finally DJs and finger-pianists can be contracted to score larger than life orchestral epics, by buffet-like picking lego phrases and loops, and laying them over pedal points of their braincell patterns... Two hours worth of "music" that can be notated on a single page with a repeat sign (
Well, Errikos, do you think you are the only one, that is musically educated? I studied piano and after that composition for film. I am very sad, that most of the time my skills in counter point, harmony and melody don't matter at all when it comes to getting a job. My interest in avantgard techniques of the orchestra can be emulated in a fraction of the time by Symphobia by the push of a button. The more complex harmonic or melodic material tends to get rejected due to the need for simpler material. Of course would I prefer to have more jobs available, that meet my skill set.
What is completely useless is you constant whining about the Zeitgeist today. It is what it is! Your crying want change a bit! So, please grow up and deal with it. When the current taste for music of the film industry is so unbearable for you, then please quit the film business!
Another thing, you should consider: Your view of the state of film music is disrespectfull to the talents of other composers that you dislike. It takes a great skill set to get a Hans Zimmer sound together. This music is of course not complex in terms of traditional musical skills. But consider this: those are part of musical "handcraft", they are not the art of composing, just skills that can be learned by anyone. As is sound design, the creative use of samples, synthesizer and mixing, etc.. a craft, that can be learned. In the end it doesn't matter what you use to achieve the art. All are just learnable skills, the art is something else (and most of the time its value a matter of point of view).
My bottom line: Your point of view is rather narrow. I don't want to offend you (or any other member of the constant Zimmer whining clan), but I cannot bear your uncountable hate/whine - posts any more! You have that typical naive point of view, that in the (golden) old times, everything was better. That is most certainly not true! Some things might have been better, but some might have been worse. Sometimes I would very much like to have no VSL and music could only be written by people, that have been educated to write a score. But, man, you cannot turn back the wheel of time, so it is completely pointless to wish for that.
Bernard Herrmann himself got fired by Alfred Hitchcock on the Torn Curtain for not writing a "popular tune" for the opening titles. Bear that in mind, when you think of your golden times of music in the film business. There was definately no music technology that was the reason for Hitchcock's musical dumbness ...
Or take Shostakovich: Stalin prefered a popular folk singers compositions over his and said, they had more cultural value than his compositions. There they are, your good ol' times!
Cheer up! Don't take yoursef to serious!
